Or maybe the best. Because Zimbabwe’s new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai faces such outrageous obstacles that, depending on how you look at it, he’s either doomed to fail or can’t possibly fail.

In any case: Tvangirai, likely the winner of recent presidential elections rejected by the loser of said elections, will now serve as Prime Minister of a coalition government under big man-perpetual president Robert Mugabe—a man who has said “Zimbabwe is mine”.

If Zimbabwe is Mugabe’s, its problems aren’t, as Mugabe has blamed the utter collapse of the economy in what was once southern Africa’s breadbasket on every bogeyman under the sun: The UK, the US, the UN, South Africa, and, of course, Tvangirai himself.

So what does a coalition government look like when the President has previously accused the incoming PM with treason? Al Jazeera English breaks it down for us, using an analogy from foosball:

So you think Obama’s  facing unrealistic expectations?

 [photo from flickr member Arbeiderpartiet on a creative commons licence.]